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ORDERS AND REGULATIONS 

/of the 

FACULTY OF HARVAKD COLLEGE, 



PASSED 

IN CONFORMITY WITH THE AUTHORITY GIVEN BY THE 
LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



July, 1852. 



I. — Regent's Office. 




The Regent's office and duties are under the inamediate di- 
rection of the President. 

All weekly lists of absences, nionitors' bills, petitions to the 
Faculty for excuse of absences from the regular exercises and 
for making up lessons, all petitions for elective studies, the 
returns of the scale of merit, and returns of delinquencies and 
deductions by the Parietal Committee, will be left with the 
Regent, or deposited in his office. 

The Regent will inform the petitioners for excuses, and for 
elective studies, of the decision of the Faculty in regard to 
their petitions, at stated hours assigned for that purpose. 

II. — Class Tutors. 

A particular Tutor is appointed for each Class, who will act 
as the ordinary medium of communication between the mem- 
bers of the Class and the Faculty, and who may be consulted 
by the students concerning their studies, or on any other sub- 
ject interesting to them in their relations to the College. 

The Class Tutors grant leave of absence from church, and 
from town for the Sabbath, including Saturday night ; but in all 
cases a satisfactory reason must be given. Excuses for ab- 
sence from church must be rendered before the beginning of 
the service on Sunday morning ; and no excuse will be re- 
ceived after that time, except by the Faculty, and then only 
when from some urgent cause it could not before have been 
offisred. 

Every student obtaining leave of absence for the Sabbath 
must bring back a certificate from his parent or guardian, or 



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some other accredited person, of his having attended church, 
which must be deposited in the Regent's office before the 
prayer-bell on Monday evening following the absence. 

No student shall be allowed to go out of town on Sunday, 
except in cases of extreme emergency ; and, in all cases, per- 
mission must first be obtained from the Class Tutor, or, in his 
absence, from some other College Officer. No student can 
have leave of absence from his regular place of worship, on 
Sunday, for the purpose of attending another service, either in 
Cambridge or elsewhere. 

The Class Tutors, likewise, administer all warnings and pri- 
vate admonitions ordered by the Faculty for misconduct or 
neglect of duty. 

III. — Absence from College over Night. 

No student is allowed to be absent from town over night, 
in term time, for any cause whatever, without leave previously 
obtained from the President, or, in case of his absence, from 
the senior officer of the Faculty then. in town ; except those 
who have permission from the Class Tutors to be absent on 
the Sabbath. 

Any student, who shall receive leave of absence from 
any other member of the Faculty than the President, must 
lodge a certificate of the same in the Regent's office before 
leaving town. 

Any student, who shall be absent from town over night, 
without leave previously obtained as herein prescribed, shall, 
for the first ofl^ence, be liable to a private admonition ; for the 
second offence, to a public admonition ; and, for the third of- 
fence, to dismission from the College. 

IV. — Absences from Prayers and Sabbath Services. 

Absences from prayers and Sabbath services shall be re- 
ported at the Regent's office, by the respective monitors, ev- 
ery Monday. 

V. — Absences from Prayers on Saturday Evening 

AND Sunday Morning. 

Students, having leave of absence for the purpose of passing 
the Sabbath with their families in the neighborhood, are ex- 
cused from prayers on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings. 

Any student, who shall be absent from prayers on Saturday 
evening, shall be excused, upon entering his name with such 
officer as shall be designated by the President, between the 
hours of 8 and 10 o'clock of that evening. 



VI. — Excuses for Absences. 

Students presenting excuses for absences from prayers, reci- 
tations, or other exercises, shall specify in which of these such 
absences occurred, and shall give the date of each. In every 
such excuse the name of the student and the Class to which he 
belongs must be written in full. No excuse, in which these 
particulars are omitted, shall be received. 

All excuses must be presented before the prayer-bell of 
Monday evening following the absence or absences. 

All petitions for leave to make up omitted exercises must be 
called for at the Regent's ofBce, in office hours, within the 
week after they have been presented. 

VII. — Excuses from Parents or Guardians. 

All excuses by parents, guardians, or other accredited per- 
sons, for absence after vacation or during term time, must state 
the reason of such absence, in order that the Faculty may judge 
of its sufficiency ; and none but such as are of an urgent and 
highly imperative nature will be deemed satisfactory. 

VIII. — ^Unexcused Absences. 

Every student is allowed one unexcused absence a week 
from prayers, without deduction, and in addition to the absence 
allowed on Saturday evening. 

Whenever, in the course of any one Term, any student's un- 
excused absences from prayers, in addition to the allowance of 
one a week, shall amount to ien, or from recitations or lectures 
to four, or from church (half-days) to one, he shall be imme- 
diately reported to the Faculty, and shall receive a private 
admonition. 

If his unexcused absences from prayers shall afterwards 
increase to twenty, or from recitations or lectures to eight, 
or from church to two, he shall receive a public admonition, 
and a letter shall be sent to his parent or guardian. 

If his unexcused absences from prayers shall afterwards 
increase to thirty, or from recitations or lectures to twelve, or 
from church to three, he shall be suspended or dismissed. 

The same penalties shall be applied to tardinesses at recita- 
tions as to absences. 

Leaving the room during an exercise shall be considered as 
an absence, and marked as such. 

Every absence from an exercise by combination will be 
deemed and punished as a high offence. 



IX. — Societies and their Meetings. 

No Society shall be deemed authorized and entitled to have 
any room assigned for its meetings, unless a copy of its consti- 
tution, and of all its rules and regulations, be deposited with 
the President. 

It shall also be the duty of every such authorized Society 
to leave with the President of the University the names of its 
president and secretary, within one week after their election ; 
and, when required, of all its members. 

To Societies complying with these conditions the Faculty 
may assign a room, if it shall be deemed expedient, under 
such regulations as may be prescribed. Any damage done 
in the building, during the evening of any meeting, if believed 
by the Faculty to have been occasioned by the meeting, or 
by those present at it, shall be assessed accordingly. 

Every Society shall close its meetings at or before 10 o'clock 
in the evening. The officers of a Society shall be responsible 
for any disorderly conduct at its meetings. 

X. — Class and General Meetings. 

No class, or general, or other meeting of students shall be 
called, without an application in writing of three students, and 
no more, expressing the purpose of such meeting ; nor other- 
wise than by a printed notice, signed by the President of the 
University, expressing the time, the object, and place of such 
meeting ; and the three students applying for such meeting 
shall be held responsible for any proceedings at it contrary to 
the laws of the University, or other than for the object ex- 
pressed in such application. Nor shall any such authorized 
meeting be continued by adjournment ; but for every meeting 
a new authority must be applied for and obtained. Every stu- 
dent attending any class, or general, or other meeting, other- 
wise called, will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 

XL — Dress of the Students. 

On Sabbath, Exhibition, Examination, and Commencement 
days, and on all other public occasions, each student, in public, 
shall wear a black coat, with buttons of the same color, and a 
black hat or cap. 

XII. — Violations of Decorum. 

The following shall be considered violations of decorum ; — 
Collecting in groups round the doors of the College build- 
ings, or in the yard, or loitering in the yard or entries, or lying 
on the ground. 



Shouting or talking from any window, or from the yard up 
to any window. 

Snowballing, or kicking football, or playing any game in the 
College yard. 

Smoking in the streets of Cambridge, in the College yard, 
the public rooms, or the entries. 

Carrying a cane into the Chapel, recitation rooms. Library, 
or any public room. 

Reading, or talking, or improper attitude, or being covered 
within the Chapel or recitation rooms. 

Entering the Chapel, at any religious service, after the tolling 
of the bell has ceased. 

Singing or playing upon any musical instrument, except be- 
tween 6 o'clock, P. M. and the study bell ; and except Sat- 
urdays between 10 o'clock, A. M. and the study-bell. 

XIII. — Bonfires. 

In case of a bonfire, or unauthorized fireworks or illumina- 
tion, any students crying fire, — sounding an alarm, — leaving 
their rooms, — shouting or clapping from the windows, — go- 
ing to the fire, or being seen at it, — going into the College 
yard, — or assembling on account of such bonfire, fireworks, 
explosion, or illumination, — shall be deemed aiding and abet- 
ting such disorder, and punished accordingly. 

XIV. — Assignment of Rooms. 

No person, not actually a member of the College, shall be 
considered as having any claim in the distribution of rooms. 

No undergraduate shall be allowed to transfer or leave a 
room assigned to him, or to occupy a room not assigned to 
him, without leave previously obtained from the Committee on 
the assignment of rooms, with the approbation of the Presi- 
dent ; and immediate notice of any change shall be reported 
to the Steward. 

XV. — Rooms in Vacation. 

Students, who desire to occupy their rooms, either in the 
College buildings or in lodging-houses, during a vacation, must 
previously obtain permission of the President ; and every stu- 
dent residing within the College walls must deposit the key of 
his room in the Steward's office before he leaves town at the 
beginning of a vacation. 



XVI. — Senior Class leaving College. 

The members of the Senior Class will leave College on 
the day following the Senior Class Day, but they are required 
to be present at Commencement. 

If any member of the Class desires to remain in Cam- 
bridge after the Class Day, he must obtain permission from the 
President, and be subject to all the rules of the College in re- 
gard to order and discipline. Those who have performances 
at Commencement must be in Cambridge at least one week 
before that time. 

XVII. — Performances at Exhibitions and Com- 
mencements. 

Performances shall be in readiness for rehearsal one fortnight 
before every Exhibition, and six days before Commencement. 

XVIII. — Estimates of Merit. 

In the monthly return made by each instructor to the Presi- 
dent, the merit of each performance shall be expressed by 
some number of a series, in which eight indicates the highest 
value for recitations ; — twenty-four for written exercises in 
Latin, Greek, or Mathematics ; — forty-eight for themes for 
Sophomores ; — sixty for declamations ; — seventy-tioo for 
forensics ; — ninety-six for themes for Juniors and Seniors. 

XIX. — Public Examinations. 

At every public examination, each member of the Committee 
shall be requested to graduate his estimate of the performances 
by a scale, on which eight indicates the highest merit. The 
average of the marks of the Committee will be multiplied by 
ten, and the product carried to the account of each student on 
the general scale. In like manner, the marks of the instructor, 
graduated on a scale on which eight denotes the highest merit, 
shall be multiplied by ten, and the product carried to the ac- 
count of the student on the general scale. 

XX. — Scale of Merit. 

At the close of each Term, the scale of merit shall be 
formed by the Faculty with reference to the Term then closed, 
by bringing together the respective bills of attendance on prayers 
and Sabbath exercises, and the returns of the several instruc- 
tors, in the following manner ; — 

The merit of each individual shall be ascertained by adding 



together the term aggregates of each instructor ; such term ag- 
gregates being the sum of all the marks given during the Term, 
for the current work of each month, for omitted lessons made 
up by permission, and of the marks given for examination by 
the instructor and the examining Committee at the close of the 
Term. 

From the aggregate of these numbers shall be deducted, for 
all unexcused delinquencies, as follows ; — 

Every absence from daily prayers, 2 

Every absence from public worship for every half-day, . 32 
Every tardiness at any recitation, lecture, or other exercise, 8 

Every absence from recitation or lecture, 8 

Every absence from a declamation, 8 

Every absence from themes or forensics, 8 

For every unexcused omission of a theme or forensic, 
of a Greek, Latin, or other written exercise, of a dec- 
lamation, or of reading a forensic, a deduction shall 
be made of the highest number of marks to which that 
exercise is entitled. 
Any student w^ho shall come to a recitation unprepared 

shall be liable to a deduction of 8 

Every Parietal admonition shall be subject to a deduc- 
tion of 16 

Every private admonition, 32 

Every public admonition, 64 

Every tardiness, not excused by the officer, shall be account- 
ed as an absence, in estimating a student's delinquencies. 

Every instructor may apportion his notation of those exer- 
cises, of which eight is indicative of the highest value, in such 
a manner as he shall judge most effective ; provided that the 
aggregate of his marks shall never exceed what all the said ex- 
ercises would be entitled to ; and that the principle of appor- 
tionment adopted shall be applicable to the whole Class attend- 
ing him. 

Misconduct at recitations, lectures, or other exercises, not 
amounting to a high offence, shall be marked at the discretion 
of the instructor, not exceeding thirty-two, and deduction be 
made accordingly. Such deductions shall be reported weekly 
to the Faculty by the several instructors, and notice of the same 
shall be communicated to the student within the week following. 
General misconduct will, at the discretion of the Faculty, 
be made the ground of deduction. 

XXI. — Study Hours. 

Study hours shall be from the commencement of the first 
recitation in the morning till 1 o'clock, P. M. ; from 3 o'clock, 



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XXII. — Parietal Committee. 

The officers residing within the College walls shall constitute 
a permanent standing committee of the Faculty, to be called 
the Parietal Committee^ and to have especial cognizance of 
offences committed within the College walls and grounds. 

Rules to be observed by the Parietal Committee. 



I. 



Offences against Good Order and Decorum. 



1. The members of the Parietal Committee will notice tardi- 
ness at prayers and Sabbath services, and all irregularities in 
the Chapel, such as reading, talking, whispering, improper atti- 
tude, or remaining covered ; all violations of sacred or study 
hours, by music or noise ; all offences against the rules of de- 
corum within the College yard, at all times, such as unneces- 
sary noise, loitering in the College yard, collecting in groups 
around the doors or in the yard, shouting or talking from any 
window, or from the yard up to a window, snowballing or 
kicking football in the yard, lying on the ground, smoking in 
the streets of Cambridge or in the College yard, or public 
rooms or entries, or any other violations of the College laws. 

2. The Parietal Committee may administer caution, warning, 
private admonition, or any other censure or punishment less 
than public admonition, including a deduction from the scale of 
rank not exceeding one hundred. Censures and punishments 
shall be inflicted by a vote of the Committee, and it shall be 
the duty of the chairman to communicate the same to the in- 
dividuals concerned, as soon as practicable after the meeting at 
which the votes shall have been passed. 

3. In case any offence, either from its character or its fre- 
quency, shall seem to the Committee to require a higher punish- 
ment than those here designated, it shall be the duty of the 
Chairman to report the same to the Faculty forthwith. 

II. Tardinesses at Religious Services. 

1. The Committee shall keep a record of all tardinesses at 
prayers and Sabbath services ; and this shall be communicated 
to the Faculty at the end of every Term, who will, for every 
instance, deduct eight from the rank of each student so reported. 

2. Whenever the number of tardinesses of any one individ- 
ual shall be found to amount lo five in a Term, the fact shall be 
immediately reported to the Faculty for their action thereupon. 



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